Re: Annotations in PHP7

On 02/21/2015 03:35 PM, Pavel Kouřil wrote:

I know you could wrap it in your code, but that would still mean there would probably be multiple implementations of Annotations in the "wild", instead of a good complete functionality in the language itself. I know PHP is not primarily an OOP language, but Annotations IMHO make sense as classes, so I don't see any reason why would it be bad to make them in that way. Also, making Annotations be classes won't magically turn PHP into a primarily OOP language? Regards Pavel Kouřil

If you look at the major projects and code in the wild, PHP is a primarily OOP language and has been for years. It's multi-paradigm but OOP is the dominant style in the wild today. And I think mapping annotations to classes is a fine idea, as it means I can very easily document what a given annotations is for (it's a class, document the class), extend it, and build meaningful functionality and defaults using an already well-known syntax and convention. --Larry Garfield